New Year's Eve 1996 I made a promise to quit
drinking for a while. Probably because I was hammered and not feeling all that well in the back seat of a cab, going to yet another party which turned out to be less than fun.
Also I think I may have been flirting with someone I should not have been flirting with. I have vague memories of somebody's angry girlfriend yelling at me. Or something. The details are fuzzy.
Either way my resolution was to tone down my drinking habits a notch or two.
That spring will always be a blur to me, for I have never drunk so much in such a short period of time (bar maybe the spring of 1993) I was pickled. I managed to do the following things while intoxicated: get married to a nice man who was completely wrong for me, piss people off - a lot, dance on top a bar at 9 am, but mostly, as with the screaming girl, the details are murky. Finally after wreaking havoc on my life I realized I had to quit - totally. Since then I have not had anything to drink.
On New Year's Eve 2002 I made a low grade, not quite-resolution-worthy-but-promise-like-utterance that I would work on my control issues. Six days later, when I was scheduled for a flight, I decided to pack down everything I did not need and only bring the most neccesary in my carry-on. Due to a
"blizzard" ( it was a light snow fall of perhaps two inches which sent them into total mayhem) in Copenhagen, I landed in Finland at 1.30 am, in -30°c with nothing but a coat, my handbag and a toothbrush .
This New Year's, I kind of thought it might be nice to join a gym just for the month of January, to kick start the year and change things around. I prefer gyms that are:
1. Close to my house- otherwise it takes too much time out of my day to go there, and I would rather go for a daily run and stretch and NO I cannot run outside because I run into things.
2. No frills, the frills are never as nice as they look in the brochure and then I prefer to shower at home anyway.
3. Cheap. I really only use the
treadmill and stretch area.
Luckily I saw that there was just such a thing located 200 meters from my house! So today I went there, the owner was very nice and I could see myself sticking out the month, perhaps even longer.
BUT they had lost their lease and today was the last day that they were open.
Man! It wasn't even a resolution, it was just something I wanted to do. That's it! I am never gonna resolve to do anything again.
Ever.
BTW, why does iceberg lettuce sometimes have brown speckles and is it okay to eat it anyway?
